Pietro Badoglio

Pietro Badoglio (28 September 1871-1 November 1956) was the Chief-of-Staff of Italy and Prime Minister from 1943 to 1944, holding the rank of Field Marshal. He fought in both World War I and World War II, and the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in between.

Biography
During the interwar years Badoglio fought in wars in Africa, served in World War I and led the annexation of Ethiopia in 1936. He was then appointed the army's chief-of-staff on Italy's entry into World War II. He resigned in 1940 over military failure in Greece but re-emerged in 1943 to engineer Mussolini's downfall.